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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals none. 



stamens 6, styles 3 stigmas fringed ; nuts sharply 3-angled, 

 brown, enclosed in the B inner segments of the calyx. 

 This plant is used as a pot herb. 



Rumex acetosa, 



Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 60. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Cannabis sativa, 

 Indian Hemp, 



Bhang. 

 Urticace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 487. 

 The Plains to 

 9,000 ft. 



Hazara (Barrett). 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Hughes-Buller). 



like the last species, but male and female flowers on 

 separate plants, branches few, racemes leafless, outer sepals 

 rellexed. 



large, annual, stems grooved, felted, branches few, 

 erect, slender, a common weed a' so cultivated ; leaves 

 4-8 in. diam,, opposite, stalked, much divided, upper leaves 

 1-5-lobed, lower 5-11 -lobed, linear-lanceolate, middle 

 lobe longest, coarsely and sharply toothed, long-pointed, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, dark green above, downy below, 

 stipules lateral, awl-shaped, bristly ; flowers greenish-yellow, 

 small, male and female on separate plants, males clustered 

 in short, axillary, drooping branched racemes, calyx of 

 5 segments, segments boat-shaped, petals ncne, stamens 

 5, filaments long, thread-like, females crowded, sessile 

 in the axils of leafy bracts, style-arms 2, thread-like ; achenes 

 j\ in., flattened, hard, enclosed in the persistent bracts. 

 The intoxicating drugs, ganja and charas, consist of the 

 resin obtained from the stem, young leaves and flowers, 

 hhang is merely the dried leaves and achenes. Hemp 

 is obtained from the fibrous stems. 



Girardinia 

 heterophylla, 



Keri, kal, bhabar. 



URTIOACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 550. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-8,000 ft. 

 jjazara (Barrett). 

 gimla (Collett). 



large, annual, root perennial, stem and branches 

 furrowed, covered with very long stinging hairs like a 

 nettle ; leaves 4-12 in. long and broad, long-stalked, 3- 

 nerved from the base, broadly ovate, upper leaves 3-5- 

 lobed, heart-shaped at the base, sharply toothed, stipules 

 large, united, leaf-like, divided at the tip ; flowers small, 

 green, sessile, closely crowded, male and female on the same 

 or separate plants, when male and female are together 

 the male are in nearly cylindric clusters on the lower part 

 of the spike, and the female in clustered heads in the upper 

 part, when separate, male in long slender often branched 

 spikes, and female in short oblong spikes, in fruit becoming 

 thick and densely bristly ; male flowers, calyx of 4 sepals, 

 petals none, stamens 4, emale flowers calyx tubular with 

 a small 3-toothed mouth, spHtting in fruit, style long, 



